The Biden administration is expected to announce a new $1.3 billion weapons package for Ukraine in the coming days, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed US officials.
The funds will be provided through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine as opposed to shipping them directly from US military stockpiles, which is the main way the US has been arming Kyiv.
The sources told Reuters that the new package will include an anti-drone air defense system, known as the VAMPIRE, Phoenix Ghost drones and Switchblade drones, which are both small loitering munitions, and another counter-drone system made by Australia’s DroneShield.
Because the weapons systems are being purchased, it could take months or years for them to be delivered. The report comes as US officials are warning the Pentagon is draining its stockpiles to dangerously low levels.
According to the State Department, the US has provided Ukraine with $10.8 billion in USAI funds so far in the 2023 fiscal year. In the 2022 fiscal year, which ended on September 30 for the federal government, the US announced $6.3 billion in USAI aid for Ukraine.
Funds for Ukraine are still being pulled from the $113 billion that Congress has authorized to spend on the war. The administration is expected to ask Congress to approve more soon.
If the Minsk Agreements had been honored how likely is that this entire tragic example of egoistic feel-good war theater would have been avoided? Now USAID has just announced $500 million in aid for Ukraine. Why? Because it’s been destroyed in a needless, evil war that could have been settled over a year ago. Where is the outrage? the outcry? And apparently Ukraine is just the warmup for war with China. Meanwhile the US domestic scene is devolving in multiple directions — so our government’s strategy is to wave its arms and point elsewhere — and send weapons, lots of weapons.
If Russia would’ve honored the Budapest memorandum, this tragedy could’ve been avoided.
If your mother had used contraception, another tragedy could have been avoided..
If NATO hadn’t expanded “one inch eastward”, this tragedy could have been avoided.
Except Oops we no longer have weapons to give them because we did not prepare for such an intense war.
So last year we sent Boris Johnson to start a war that we lacked the ability to properly fight.
And of yeah. The 20 billion Euro military assistance to Ukraine package IS sending a message. That message to Russia is that EU will mostly be staying out of the adventure in Ukraine.
Therefore, Russia should continue attacking and annexing Ukraine in the name of peace.
We are working hard to make that a reality. First we have to accomplish our original goal of Ukraine fighting to the last man.
The most disgusting thing about the war is that the US had Ukraine launch such a suicidal offensive to start, and now that Ukrainian troops and leadership have found tactics that reduce Ukrainian casualties and increase Russian casualties, the US is demanding that Ukraine return to the previous tactics that destroyed so much Ukrainian equipment and killed so many Ukrainians. At the same time saying that the US was unprepared for such an intense and long battlefront, so that our support will be reduced in the future.
Before it was obvious that once the US got serious about the war, Russia would easily get pushed back. We were supposed to get to Crimea last October, this Spring, and this Summer.
All completely false.
Russia will annex parts of Ukraine. Our actions maximize the number of Ukrainians that will die first. This is consistent with Blinken’s assessment of the conflict a year and a half ago.
The good news, from the stated US goals, is that it will be expensive for Russia to make Ukraine liveable. DU ammunition and cluster bombs are just what is needed to further increase the cost.
It seems more and more likely that Russia will reduce Ukraine to a dysfunctional rump state. I won’t be surprised if Russia takes the entire Black Sea coastline. John Mearsheimer predicts that Russia will take several more oblasts to the west of those already annexed. But there is no reason for Russia to occupy eastern Ukraine, whose people are more Western European. I feel sad for all the Ukrainians, because they are just pawns in a Great Game played by the US.
Cool your jets, tankies. Russia can’t even take Kupyansk or defend Bakhmut. Maybe they should send some of those 70 y/o mobiks in to get something done! Hahaha.
What are they gonna send this time? The kitchen sink?
“US Expected to Announce New $1.3 Billion Weapons Package for Ukraine -The
arms will be provided through the Ukraine Security Assistance
Initiative, which allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine”
Plus US AID sending hundreds of millions in cash and aid.
Did anyone notice this week that interest on America’s $32 Trillion in debt is now the number one expense of the US government at over $1 Trillion a year.
America is fast approaching it’s 1947 moment! In 1947 the British went bankrupt and had to abandon their empire pulling out of India and most other possessions.
Remember Joey Biden did that!
“Remember Joey Biden did that!”
Not defending Biden, but he had plenty of help.
Time sis running out for US. Be sure to vote.
Damn, I wish I’d heard this news a few days ago. Probably too late now to make a quick profit on the stocks of the companies that make this stuff. But it’s all good for our economy, so no worries, right? More war means more jobs making more weapons!
Money laundering on a mammoth scale…
Thoroughly corrupted, unaccountable government, headed by a bunch of cold war has-been lunatics, escaped from an asylum.
Just put it on the card, right uncle Joe?
The administration is expected to ask Congress to approve more soon.
Or they’ll come up with another accounting error if there is any chatter of future aid getting turned down. Either way, we’ll get fleeced.
It’s OK. We’re gonna tax the rich to pay for it!
That’s gotta be from Nuland’s galactic bank account. 🤣
She is arguably richer than Putin.
ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR NULAND AND HER DEATH STAR!
Drink!